270616 - icon in task bar changes to windows folder icon

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Joris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Here's a screenshot: http://users.telenet.be/SkyStudios/wrongicon.png
The icon in the upper left corner is still the correct Firefox icon, but in the
taskbar it has changed to the Windows folder icon. I can't reproduce this
problem and I don't know what caused it, my eye just fell on it.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[c r williams]

Have same issue; quick launch button for Firefox pic has changed to generic
window icon. Right click, properties, change icon etc gives Windows (XP, SP2)
message:

"The file %ProgramFiles%\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe contains no icons. Choose
an icon from the list or specify a different file."

I can see the (firefox) icon in the firefox title bar and when the app is minimized.

Downloading 1.0.4 did not change.

Button changed spontaneously two days ago.

All other icons seem to be OK at present.

Windows or Firefox issue?

Comment 2

[c r williams]

The problem fixed itself. I'm thinking it's something to do with Windows' icon
caching, but I can't demonstrate it...

I think the strangest thing was where Windows said that the exe file did not
have any icons in it - I opened the exe file in Visual Studio resource editor
and all the icons were there - which means VS could find them - go figure.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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